sloth

English

Wikipedia

A sloth (2)

Etymology

Middle English slou, slowe (“slow”), replacing Old English slæwð. Used as a calque of Portuguese preguiça (“sloth (animal) and laziness”), from Latin pigritia (“laziness”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /sləʊθ/, SAMPA: /sl@UT/
• (US) IPA: /slɔθ/, /slɑθ/, /sloʊθ/, SAMPA: /slOT/, /slAT/, /sloUT/
• Rhymes: -əʊθ

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Noun

sloth (countable and uncountable; plural sloths)

1. (uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset.
2. (countable) A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
3. (rare) A collective term for a group of bears.

Usage notes

Sloth is one of the seven deadly sins (see Wikipedia article on the seven deadly sins for more details).

Translations

laziness

Arabic: كَسَل (ar) (kasal) m. Catalan: accídia (ca) f., peresa (ca) f., mandra (ca) f. Croatian: lijenost (hr) f. Czech: lenost (cs) f. Dutch: luiheid (nl) f. Estonian: laiskus Finnish: laiskuus (fi) French: paresse (fr) m. German: Trägheit (de) f., Faulheit (de) f. Greek: νωθρότητα (el) (nothrótita) f. Hungarian: lustaság (hu), tunyaság (hu), restség (hu), henyeség (hu) Icelandic: leti (is) f., ómennska (is) f., dugleysi (is) n., n

Italian: pigrizia f., (deadly sin) accidia f. Japanese: 怠惰 (たいだ, taida) Khmer: កម្ជិល (km) (kam jil) Polish: lenistwo (pl) n. Portuguese: preguiça (pt) f. Romanian: lene (ro) f. Russian: лень (l'en') f., леность (l'énost') f. deadly sin Scottish Gaelic: a' corra-leisg f., seothaiche m., leisge f. Serbian: лењост f. Slovene: lenoba (sl) f. Spanish: pereza (es) f. Swedish: lättja (sv) c., lathet (sv) c.

mammal

Arabic: كَسْلان (ar) (kaslaan) m. Catalan: peresós (ca) m. Cherokee: ᏅᎩᏗᎦᏅᏍᏗ ᎤᏓᏄᎸ (chr) (nvgidiganvsdi udanulv) Croatian: ljenjivac m., tipavac m. Czech: lenochod (cs) m. Danish: dovendyr Dutch: luiaard (nl) m. Esperanto: bradipo (eo) Estonian: laiskloom Finnish: laiskiainen (fi) French: paresseux (fr) m., aï (fr) m. German: Faultier (de) n. Greek: βραδύπους (el) (vradýpous) m. Hungarian: lajhár (hu) Icelandic: letidýr (is) n. Indonesian: kukang Italian: bradipo (it) m.

Japanese: ナマケモノ (ja) (namakemono) Khmer: កម្ជិល (km) (kam jil) Korean: 나무늘보 namuneulbo Navajo: ndilnaʼii Polish: leniwiec (pl) m. Portuguese: bicho-preguiça m.,preguiça f. Romanian: leneș (ro) m. Russian: ленивец (ru) (l'enívec) m. Serbian: лењивац m. Slovene: lenivec (sl) m. Spanish: perezoso m., pereza f. (Venezuela) Swahili: mvivu-miti (sw), slothu (sw) Swedish: sengångare c. Volapük: (male or female) bradip (vo), (male) hibradip (vo), (female) jibradip (vo), (male or female offspring, young) bradipül (vo), (male offspring, young) hibradipül (vo), (female offspring, young) jibradipül (vo)

See also

• Wikipedia article on the sloth

External links

• sloth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• sloth in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• holts